4.6 Article

Leptin mediates the regulation of muscle mass and strength by adipose tissue

Journal

JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LONDON
Volume 600, Issue 16, Pages 3795-3817

Publisher

WILEY
DOI: 10.1113/JP283034

Keywords

adipokines; anabolic; fat-muscle cross-talk; muscle contraction

Funding

  1. Shriners Hospitals for Children, Musculoskeletal Research Centre Pilot Grant [P30 AR074992]
  2. Feasibility and Just-In-Time Grant [T32 DK108742, T32 DK007120]
  3. NIH [AR075773, AG15768, AG46927, AR072999, AR073752]

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The study demonstrates the essential role of adipose tissue in the development of normal muscle mass and strength. The adipokine leptin is found to be critical in rescuing the deficits in mass and contractile tension. This finding expands our understanding of adipokines in muscle homeostasis.
Adipose tissue secretes numerous cytokines (termed 'adipokines')that have known or hypothesized actions on skeletal muscle. The majority of adipokines have been implicated in the pathological link between excess adipose and muscle insulin resistance, but approximately half also have documented in vitro effects on myogenesis and/or hypertrophy. This complexity suggests a potential dual role fur adipokines in the regulation of muscle mass in homeostasis and the development of pathology. In this study, we used lipodystrophic 'fat-free' mice to demonstrate that adipose tissue is indeed necessary for the development of normal muscle mass and strength. Pal-free mice had significantly reduced mass (similar to 15%) and peak contractile tension (similar to 20%) of fast-twitch muscles, a slowing of contractile dynamics and decreased cross-sectional area of fast twitch fibres compared to wild-type littermates. These deficits in mass and contractile tension were fully rescued by reconstitution of similar to 10% of normal adipose mass, indicating that this phenotype is the direct consequence of absent adipose. We then showed that the rescue is solely mediated by the adipokine leptin, as similar reconstitution of adipose from leptin-knockout mice fails to rescue mass or strength. Together, these data indicate that the development of muscle mass and strength in wild-type mice is dependent on adipose-secreted leptin. This finding extends our current understanding of the multiple roles of adipokines in physiology as well as disease pathophysiology to include a critical role for the adipokine leptin in muscle homeostasis.

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